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Jackson of Detroit, 400 to 283, in the
first set of an intercity 18-2 billiard
match between Chicago and Detroit.
Cochran went out in 28 innings.
cochran's Comment
ENEMIES OF THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS. The members of the
school board' who signed away the
rights of teachers and the interests
of pupils when they agreed to re
elect Jake Loeb president ought to
hang their heads in shame. Either
they did this Vith their eyes open
and bowed their heads while the
yoke of Big Business was put on
their necks, or they are too ignorant
to know what they are doing. In
either event they ate unfit to bp
members of the Chicago board of
education. Anybody who knows
Jake Loeb knows he isn't fitted by
education, association or environ
ment to preside over the destinies of
the public schools of Chicago. Jake
is a fire insurance agent, 'a cunning,
smart business man, who knows
enough to know that the business
patronage of members of the Illinois
Manufacturers' association is worth
having, and worth fighting the Chi
cago Teachers' Federation to get
He has not only that backing, but
also v the backing of the Chicago
News and the Chicago Tribune, both
of which have editorially endorsed
him for president. And these are the
two newspapers whose buildings are
built on public school land in the
loop and who benefit thousands of
dollars annually by paying rental on
a valuation much lower than the ac
tual value of the land. Both papers
are in fact robbing the public schools
of Chicago because of the infamous
midnight lease action of a -newspaper-controlled
school board, which
lease provides that no matter how
high real estate values may go'in the
loop the News and Tribune will keep
on paying rental until the cows come
home on a valuation made years ago.
. It is high time parents who have j
1 children in the public schools of Chi
cago were Waking up and defending
the public schools from this rotten
raid of crooked Big Business. It is
my judgment that the male and
female members of the ring Jthat
controls the school board aref ene
mies of the public schools. .
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FACES DEATH FOR STEALING
FROM STEEL COMPANY
Gary, lnd., Nov. 21. C. A. Shil
linger, a sailor, faces sentence bf
death on the charge of stealing a
compass from the steamer Jas. J.
Farrell, flagship-of the U. S. Steel
corporation's ore boats.
Shillinger will be tried under a law
passed in 1700. If found guilty he will
either have to be freed or hanged
from the yard arm of the Farrell in
Gary harbor, lawyers stated. Shil
linger will be tried before Federal
Judge Anderson in Indianapolis.
co--
I. W. W. CONVENTION ON
The 1916 convention qf Industrial
Workers of World is on at Masonic
hall, Bush Temple, with 138 delegates
from 340 , locals in all states of the
union present. . Tall, 'lean, strong,
young men predominate among the
delegates. Most of them have been
working on railroads, in harvest
fields, mines, lumber mills and on
jobs wheje no mollycoddle gets
along. They will be here all week
and have a ball Saturday night for a-wind-up.
Membership of some or
ganizations is reported "at these
figures: Agricultural Workers' Or
ganization, 18,000; Railroad Work
ers' Industrial Union, 10,000; Metal
Mines Workers' Industrial Union, -
6,000.; Marine Transport Workers,
10,000. ' . '
Washington. Sec'y Daniels says
nav- saved $2,000,000 by insisting for
fair price on armor for four new battleships.
Washington. Universal woman
suffrage endorsed by National
Grange.